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| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 385064 | 2005-09-28 04:51:00 | emerge submount (it may be known as subfs in portage) | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 385065 | 2005-10-02 07:17:00 | When I installed KDE I impulsively only emerged kde-base and now, with some features, I'm having a problem emerging them i.e. if I run emerge kdemultimedia, I get a message that says other packages are blocking it. However I do have a working kde. But it is desirable that I get some more of kde's features. I have considered doing an "emerge --unmerge kde-base, and then re-emerging a complete kde, but I'm just a bit concerned that would break things. I wonder what would be the best approach with this one? I have tried emerging the packages that are blocking, in order of listing (as suggested) but that only gets so far. |
jcr1 (893) | ||
| 385066 | 2005-10-02 09:18:00 | Geez, thats a good question emerge --force --nodeps kde Dont quote me on that though ;-) |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 385067 | 2005-10-02 09:38:00 | I had this too when I was playing round with KDE. The answer I was given was to find out what was blocking the emerge (emerge --pretend kdemultimedia), unmerge each package that was blocking it individually, then emerge kde-base and kdemultimedia, or just go all the way and emerge kde-meta (for kde and kdm). Mind you (at that stage) I was only trying to get amarok going properly (have since ditched amarok and kde in favour of xmms and good ol Gnome) honestly dunno why I bother with anything else, I always end up going back to Gnome :p |
Myth (110) | ||
| 385068 | 2005-10-02 10:49:00 | Give openbox a try Tazz, you might like it :-) Im using the recently released rc2 | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 385069 | 2005-10-03 01:25:00 | I first tried emerge --force --nodeps kdemultimedia and was informed I couldn't use --force. Then I used emerge --nodeps kdemultimedia and it worked. I now have it installed, it appears to work fine; but I really do wonder how satisfactory an install that is, using --nodeps. I would really like to avoid having to do an emerge --kde-meta, it would tie the computer up for days :eek: I've been there done that already. Point taken about Open Box and Gnome. I'm kinda comfortable with kde, but always open to a convincing argument as to why I should change. |
jcr1 (893) | ||
| 385070 | 2005-10-03 05:24:00 | What is kde-meta? Ive always just ran: emerge kde After booting for the first time, gone to bed and woke up in the morning with a fully functional system. You need to use Openbox because I think its better ;) YMMV, and if KDE does you well, then stick to it :) |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 385071 | 2005-10-03 06:56:00 | What is kde-meta? In the KDE Configuration HOWTO, it says "if you want a full-blown KDE installation, install kde-meta . This package will pull in all KDE applications as dependencies" . Then it goes on to say "If you want a basic KDE installation, install kdebase-startkde . You can always install additional KDE applications when you want" . This second option is the one I went for . You need to use Openbox because I think its better ;) ERRR right, a convincing argument :confused: . But seriously, maybe I should look into it; it would be a fair bit lighter than KDE or Gnome? I also believe that it can be run on top of KDE; but this would negate its advantages wouldn't it? |
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